Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced.
The Democrats, by their clueless misreadings of the popular will, put themselves into this bind, and whine that they were “misunderstood”.
On the contrary, they were understood only all too well. Collectively, people are a lot smarter than the Democrats give them credit for.
Analysts cast about for analogs but the trend was right in front of their faces in the ‘14 midterms when NO poll except the DeMoines Register’s poller got it right, every other poll was 5pts off, and I was shocked by the Dems that blurted out to me that they voted straight R in those mid-terms.
They never bothered analyzing that (PUBLICLY!), and they aren’t going to publicly admit ‘16 was a continuation of ‘14, because that’s explicit admission that their platform/agenda has completely failed.
‘Why aren’t I 50pt ahead?!?’, indeed. RATS were crossing over to Repub primaries by 12 million for Trump, but they couldn’t deal with it, and like the spouse who got cheated on, they were the last to know.
The Unions alone could have tipped the RATS off to the reality on the ground, that thousands of Union workers were attending Trump rallies instead of going to work when he was in town. Every shred of evidence was waving in front of them, they chose to ignore it.